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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE N. vv. LANGL'EY, OE EASTOAMBRIDGE, AND H. JONES AND A, s.

\ MASSACHUSETTS. MODE or SECUEING PHOTOGRAPHS, aw., To TOivrEsToNES.`

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concer'n Be it known that We, N. W. LANGLEY, of East Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex, and HENRY JONES and AARON S. DRAHE, both OfStoughton, in the county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Method of Securing Photo aphs, Daguerreotypes, or other Devices or eslgns to Tombstones, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, inwhich- `Figure 1,is a perspective view of a por tion of a tombstone having a likeness secured theretoin our improved method.` Fig. 2, a vertical section through the same.

The attem ts heretofore made topreserve a likeness o 'f a deceased person on a tombstone, by securing thereto a daguerreotype or photograph, has failed from the diiiiculty of excluding the atmosphere from the picture, which Was soon injured by the admission of moisture. a Y; l

To remedy this is the object of our present invention. which consists in placing ness or picture in a `glass case or at bottle, the neck of Which is closed by a round glass stopper, tting tightly thereln, the glass bottle or case then being secured to the tomb-stone. p

That others skilled in the art may understand and use our invention, We Will proceed to describe the manner in Which `We have carriedA out the same.

In the accompanying drawings A repreformed a suitable recess B, h

i ground to iit accuratelyfonthe neck c the like-` `DE. y OE STOUGHTON,

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sents the tombstone in thef portion a of it undercut as shown lin p b The daguerreotype, Itographor other vice is placed in a `flat bottleor glass c" as representedby the `portrait b, Figs. 2, and is held against thebottom of tle by a packingg, ofcottonfivool suitable material. i, Thel glass stoppe d; fthe 45 bottle, Where it is insertedfastight l ble. The bottlefisnowplaoedfinfthe 1 B, and pla `or other cementispoured around it as at. f `or a suihclent quantit plaster may be put intothe recess B a bottle C be pressed dow into it. p

The stopper cl Wi lude from the in terior of the bottle, consequently` from the picture, tliemoisturefnot only "ofth atmosphere, but `also Ithat which "vvouldje hale from the plaster Sivhile it Wasldrying What We claim as ourl invention "l sire to secure by Letters` Batent is+ Securing da )juerreoty:pes,If` &c., upon tombstones, byfinolosin a glass `casethe openingg which is clo ll by a glass stopper, and aiflxing the s the stone. Y :V

Witnesses: THOs. RoR 

